{
  "id": 6546059,
  "title": "Africa: Fewer Than 2% of Africans Who Need Hearing Aids Have Them, but New Solutions Offer Hope",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/10/africa-fewer-than-2-of-africans-who-need-hearing-aids-have-them-but",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-10T05:12:48.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "AllAfrica Health",
    "slug": "allafrica-health",
    "url": "https://allafrica.com/stories/202609100008.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "[The Conversation Africa] Hearing loss affects more than 1.5 billion people worldwide. Close to 80% live in low - and middle - income countries, where hearing care is out of reach for most. In Africa, an estimated 136 million people live with hearing loss, a figure expected to more than double to 337 million by 2050. Yet fewer than 2% of people on the continent who need a hearing aid have one.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}